“Partnership Arrangement and Means of Implementation on post-2015 Cambodia Development Agenda”

1. “Partnership Arrangement and Means of Implementation on post-2015 Cambodia Development Agenda” 23 May 2014 Himawari Hotel, Phnom Penh By: Soeung Saroeun, ED, CCC Vision:A strong and capable civil society, cooperating and responsive to Cambodia’s development challenges

2. Outline of Presentation • Results from first round consultation • Related post 2015 advocacy campaigns • Current partnership and areas to be improved • Appropriate policy initiatives • Involvement of CSOs in the implementation of post 2015 agenda • Mechanisms, M&E • Potential challenges and solutions • Ways forward

3. First Round Consultations: CSOs’ Perspectives on Cambodia Development Framework Beyond 2015 • 2 regional consultations • Battambang • Kampong Cham • 1 national consultation

4. Key Identified Priority Issues • Social Inclusion and Human Development • Inclusive Economic Development • NRM and Ecological Development • Good governance and Inclusive Partnership • Human Rights to Development

5. Related Post 2015 Advocacy Campaigns • HLP in March at Bali-Indonesia 2013 • CSO meeting in March in BONN/Germany 2013 • CSOs Inputs to NSDP of RGC • Inputs DPs, including UN agencies in country and UN Assembly in NY 2013 • Beyond 2015 consultations process (Pretoria, Bali, Pattaya, BKK)

6. Second Round Consultations: Partnership Arrangement and Means of Implementation on Post 2015 Development Agenda Two regional consultations in Siem Reap and Kratie

7. Current Partnership • NGO networks were established by CSOs in Cambodia-CCC, NGO Forum, MEDICAM, HACC, CBOs and other networks. • Aid Effectiveness: 19 Technical Working Groups, GDCC, and CDCF, draft DCPS 2014 - 2018 • Project based engagement: e.g Social Accountability WG, GBV WG, etc • DPs-UN, EU, WB, ADB provide spaces for CSOs to contribute formulations related to development strategies/policies; • CSO- local administration partnership – commune investment plan, new organic laws, etc.

8. Areas to Be Improved • Limited information sharing to and amongst different development actors; • CSO Consortium for joint proposal to address the needs of citizens; • Partnership and information sharing between CSO and Government; • Quality and well functions of TWGs and GDCC and CDCF; • Draft DCPS limited the roles of CSOs in engaging with government only support service delivery and humanitarian assistance; • Sub-national working groups and other related structures • Triangle partnership (Government, CSO, Business)

9. Appropriate Policy Initiatives • A policy that guide partnership among civil society, private sector , development partners and government; • Ensure a policy and regulation that enables CSOs to fulfill its potentials as a development partner; • Contextualizing Corporate Social Responsibility (CRS); • Establishing national funds for CSOs – government budget and contribution from business sector (CSR) • Adapting tools/system for promoting the transparency and accountability (EITI, AITI, and Open Government Partnership –OGP);

10. Involvement of CSOs in the Implementation • Partnering with government in formulating relevant national and sub-national policies and regulations; • Providing and improving the quality of public services; • Advocating the government to apply their policies and respond to the needs of citizens; • Monitoring and providing constructive feedback on the performance of government, business, and development partners; • Monitoring on national budget, management of other national revenue; • Empowering community to participate in their development process and exercise their rights.

11. Mechanisms, Monitoring and Evaluation • A joint committee and allowing representatives from each sector to participate in developing work plan, implementing the works and conducting M&E process; • Internal and external audit should be conducted for all agreed development efforts and encourage for mutual learning and improvement; • Appropriate mechanism on micro loans should be established; • A mechanism to address the unemployment and migration with decent works; • An effective marketing mechanism to ensure the fair trade; • Fund mobilizing and funding mechanism needs to be effectively set up;

12. Mechanisms, Monitoring and Evaluation • A Monitoring and Evaluation mechanism such as JMI needs to be in place at both national, sub-national and sectors; • Improving technical working group (TWG), GDCC, CDCF or committee with co-lead/facilitators (should have CSO reps) • The good governance, anti-corruption law/policy should be reinforced at all level.

13. Potential Challenges • Not genuine partnership between CSOs and Government, and triangle partnership; • Cambodian’s Financial resources heavily depend on international grants and donations; • Poor governance and corruption highly existed; • Lack of independence of Judicial system in the country; • Lack of genuine engagement with citizens in development process.

14. Proposed Resolutions • Policies outline genuine partnership between CSOs and Government and Tripartite partnership; • More investment on the institutional development; • Peer learning or exchanging of best practices among different development actors; • A mechanism for resource mobilization from the other development actors such as DP, government and private sector; • More and regular dialogue/forum between civil society and the government in both national and sub national level; • Officially recognize the roles of CSOs as started in ACCRA (service delivery, empowering, advocacy and watch-dog)

15. Ways Forward • Finalize today communiqué and report; • Feed in to UN discussion on 27-29 May 2014 and UN General Assembly in September 2014; ADB and World Bank CSO Engagement • Round table discussion with RGC, DPs in June 2014 and beyond; • Beyond 2015-ADA-GCAP 4th consultations on Post-2015 development agenda on 25-26 May 2014 in Bangkok-Thailand; • Connect to Beyond 2015 campaign at global levels (e.g Brussels in June).

16. Thanks for Your Attention!